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Porcelain tea-jar

blue and cream head and shoulders of a boy, wearing a hat

Limehouse, London, 1745-47

In the form of the head of a Chinese boy. The cover (the top of his hat) is a replica. Tea was so expensive that the mistress of the house took the leaves from the jar herself and made tea in front of her guests.

Purchased 1980